Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for High Temperature (1 000 ℃) Sensing Based on a Few-Mode Fiber

Juan LIU; Chaowei LUO; Hua YANG; Zhen YI; Bin LIU; Xingdao HE; and Qiang WU

doi:10.1007/s13320-020-0596-z

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